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Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

You may soon need a licence to take photos of that classic designer chair you bought | ... - 0 views

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    "Changes to UK copyright law will soon mean that you may need to take out a licence to photograph classic designer objects even if you own them."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Search Engines Need Regulating to Reduce Piracy, Russia Says - TorrentFreak - 0 views

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    " Andy on December 11, 2015 C: 28 News Russian telecoms watchdog Roskomnadzor says it will create a working group to look into the regulation of search engine results. The move is part of a package of initiatives designed to make pirated content harder to find. Also on the table are discussions on how to make anti-piracy techniques less prone to circumvention."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

FCC Boss Mocks Unfair Comcast Broadband Caps At Industry Dinner, Still Hasn't Done Squa... - 0 views

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    [From the tilted-playing-fields dept As we've covered for some time, Comcast has slowly but surely been expanding the company's immensely-unpopular broadband usage caps. ...]
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Linux smartphones took a serious step back in 2015 [# ! Note] - 0 views

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    "2015 was such a hopeful year for Linux on smartphones. At the beginning of the year, there was so much hope for what could be."
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Three ways to easily encrypt your data on Linux | howtoforge.com | [# ! Note] - 0 views

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    "Data encryption is one very solid security measure/precaution that everyone who owns data with significant personal or objective value should perform."
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Copyright case over "Happy Birthday" is done, trial cancelled | Ars Technica UK - 0 views

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    "Settlement details aren't yet public, but Warner/Chappell isn't happy. by Joe Mullin (US) - Dec 10, 2015 8:22am CET"
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EU Proposal Bans Netflix-Style Geo Blocking and Restrictions - TorrentFreak - 0 views

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    " Ernesto on December 9, 2015 C: 62 Breaking The European Commission has officially presented its plan to abolish geo-blocking and filtering restrictions across EU member states. The new proposal requires online services to allow users to access their accounts all across Europe, even in countries where it's officially not available yet."
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BitTorrent Still Dominates Internet's Upstream Traffic - TorrentFreak - 0 views

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    " Ernesto on December 8, 2015 C: 20 News New data published by Canadian broadband management company Sandvine reveals that BitTorrent can be credited for a quarter of all upstream Internet traffic in North America, more than any other traffic source. With heavy competition from Netflix and other real-time entertainment, BitTorrent's overall traffic share is falling."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Cyber bill's final language likely to anger privacy advocates | TheHill - 0 views

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    "By Cory Bennett - 12/07/15 09:55 AM EST Digital rights advocates are in an uproar as the final text of a major cybersecurity bill appears to lack some of the privacy community's favored clauses. In the last few weeks, House and Senate negotiators have been working unofficially to reach a compromise between multiple versions of a cyber bill that would encourage businesses to share more data on hacking threats with the government."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

France looking at banning Tor, blocking public Wi-Fi | Ars Technica UK [# ! Note] - 0 views

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    "Leaked documents from Ministry of Interior show a worryingly illiberal trend for France. by Sebastian Anthony - Dec 7, 2015 12:01pm CET"
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Linux Kernel Security (SELinux vs AppArmor vs Grsecurity) | [ # ! 2009 to check and upd... - 0 views

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    " Unfortunately, stock kernel is not secured out of box. There are some important Linux kernel patches to secure your box"
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Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen on the Microsoft-Red Hat Deal | Techrights - 0 views

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    "Summary: Founder of Free software and author of the GPL (respectively) comment on what Microsoft and Red Hat have done regarding patents WE FINALLY GOT some feedback regarding the baffling patent agreement which seemingly affects every user of GNU/Linux. We got this feedback from Stallman and (indirectly) Moglen, two of the Free software world's most prominent individuals, especially when it comes to the GPL (GNU Public Licence/License)."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Pirate Bay's .org Domain Suspended Pending ICANN Verification - TorrentFreak [Note] - 0 views

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    " Ernesto on December 7, 2015 C: 0 Breaking Pirate Bay's original .org domain was suspended by EuroDNS a few hours ago, after the registrant failed to verify the contact details. Even though it's no longer the main domain name for the site, the bookmark was still in use by many people as a redirect to Pirate Bay's latest home base. "
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Take Control of Your PC with UEFI Secure Boot | Linux Journal - 1 views

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    "Nov 30, 2015 By Greig Paul in HOW-TOs Security UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is the open, multi-vendor replacement for the aging BIOS standard, which first appeared in IBM computers in 1976. The UEFI standard is extensive, covering the full boot architecture. This article focuses on a single useful but typically overlooked feature of UEFI: secure boot. "
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

You're Gonna Pay for All that Piracy, American ISPsDigital Music News [# ! Critical ;) ... - 0 views

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    "Last month, US District Court judge Liam O'Grady dropped the bomb on Cox Communications by stripping the ISP of critical DMCA protections. This week, he's laying the groundwork for a potentially disastrous level of liability and damages, not just for Cox, but the entire class of US-based ISPs."
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Apple Caters to Open Source by Switching Swift to Apache 2.0 License | Open Source Appl... - 0 views

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      [# ! Why It will be that 'Everyb@dy' wants to 'seem' #OpenSource...? [ # ! + http://www.wired.com/2015/08/microsoft-moves-toward-open-source-linux-fills-cloud/ ] # ! Fortunately, we got clear what Open Source really is. # ! ;) ]
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    "Apple's Swift programming language has been open-sourced under an Apache 2.0 license, making it possible to use the language on Linux and Windows in addition to OS X and iOS."
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    "Apple's Swift programming language has been open-sourced under an Apache 2.0 license, making it possible to use the language on Linux and Windows in addition to OS X and iOS."
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STEAL THIS SHOW | About - 0 views

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    "STEAL THIS SHOW is a collaboration between TorrentFreak and STEAL THIS FILM's Jamie King. For more than a decade, TorrentFreak has covered the latest in filesharing and copyright news. After making STEAL THIS FILM, Jamie, started VODO, to help artists use P2p to get their work out and experiment with new business models. (Recently, Jamie has started working on a new project, Emergents, which you are welcome to check out.)"
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Steal This Show S01E02: Rebel Librarians & Pirate Academics - TorrentFreak - 0 views

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    " By Ernesto on December 5, 2015 C: 1 Opinion Today we bring you the second episode of the Steal This Show podcast, discussing the latest file-sharing and copyright news. In this episode we talk about anti-piracy campaigns and why a group of academics are promoting file-sharing, among other things."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Let's Encrypt May Improve Security for Regular People More Than Any Other Initiative Th... - 0 views

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    "Let's Encrypt May Improve Security for Regular People More Than Any Other Initiative This Decade"
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University: 'Pirating' Students Being Deliberately Targeted - TorrentFreak - 0 views

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      # ! Between skyrocketing tuition and, now, students persecution, it seems that the real plan is to destroy Universities, a direct attack to knowledge... and Freedom.
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    " Andy on December 3, 2015 C: 84 Breaking Data published by Central Michigan University has revealed a worrying trend in copyright complaints. Out of 1,912 received so far in 2015, more than 80% were from Rightscorp, a company that demands cash to settle. The university's chief information officer believes that campuses like his are being deliberately targeted"
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    " Andy on December 3, 2015 C: 84 Breaking Data published by Central Michigan University has revealed a worrying trend in copyright complaints. Out of 1,912 received so far in 2015, more than 80% were from Rightscorp, a company that demands cash to settle. The university's chief information officer believes that campuses like his are being deliberately targeted"
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